Indian Journal of Science and Technology

Abstract

Motivation: Controlling and monitoring of the whole process of industry is very difficult from a single place. Many workers required in different places of the plant to monitor, analyse, and gather data and to perform specific function accordingly.

Problem: These gathering of data cause us our precious time. Sometimes due to this delay, many accidents occur like fire, leaking of different dangerous gases or materials, etc. Many monitoring tools and methods were developed to give solution for gathering data, but still workers were needed on the plant side to complete the task like powering on or off the system.

Methods: This cloud-based industrial system controlling and monitoring application is designed not only to help in gathering data but also in controlling of different parameters of industry in a single application.

Findings: This gathering is done via the cloud; Human Machine Interface (HMI) is linked to a database so that everyone can easily understand the working status of the plant. These data can be controlled and monitored from everywhere and from every device which has internet availability. Here we are using Siemens manufactured digital module of Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) s7-200. Without any internet module of PLC, we are sending our data over cloud to be monitored and controlled from all over the world.

Application: The next step of this application will be receiving notifications via email or SMS whenever a parameter is changed.

Keywords: Industrial Automation, Controlling, Monitoring, HMI, Open Platform Communications (OPC) Server, Programmable Logic Device.